Intramolecular aromatic substitutions of the imidazol-5-yl radical to form tricyclic imidazo[5,1-a] heterocycles

Letters in Organic Chemistry

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 510-513

  Aldabbagh, Fawaz ^a   Clyne, Mairéad A ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Brominations; Imidazoles; Photochemistry; Radical cyclizations; Tributyltin hydride

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748881744     PISSN: 15701786     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/157017806778341960     Document Type: Article

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